Global Chemical Database

Color, Light & Imaging

This topic covers chemicals connected with dyes, pigments, fluorescence, photography, display technologies, light, and chemical imaging.

Iron oxide

Humans were working with iron oxide chemistry long before chemistry had a name. Some evidence of deliberate ochre processing goes back about 100,000 years.

Sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate

Before digital photography, making an image appear was only half the job. Another chemical was needed to make it survive the light: sodium thiosulfate.